“Thereis enough in the tmarchist^fortnigHtiy world to satisfy everyone’s needs but not everyone’s greed.” Gandhi Freedomf if t y p e n c e Vol. 55 No. 7 2 APRIL 1994

THE CAPITALIST DISEASE THAT W O N ’T GO AWAY MASS UNEMPLOYMENT IS HERE TO STAY he G7 meeting in Detroit last next champagne party in Naples, be of their top boys with golden Tmonth of the top politicians of the studying how to reduce the estimated handshakes. major industrial countries was, as all 30 million unemployed in the G7 such ‘summit’ gatherings invariably countries at present. ince the politicians go on repeating are, a huge success... for the smiling, Without their expertise, this writer Sthat they can see light at the end hand-shaking, champagne-guzzling nevertheless has no hesitation in of the capitalist-unemployment leaders and their retinues of advisers forecasting that by the time Naples is tunnel, we surety need not apologise and other hangers-on. due, our political mafia will have for also repeating our view that short For the army of the unemployed and found another excuse to explain why of draconian measures (which would the underpaid part-timers-without- the number of unemployed and the certainly finish off Baroness rights, the homeless and the sick poverty of the bottom 20% has got Thatcher, as Chile-con-carne failed to (‘tuberculosis the new scourge’ worse while the profits of the banks do recently) unemployment in the among the poor and the cardboard are soaring, the speculators and the Western world will inevitably rise with box residents) there are promises but City yuppies don’t know what to do all its social and other consequences. no solutions. Plenty of promises: the with their bonuses, and privatised Even the bosses are getting worried. hangers-on will, between now and the public services et alia pension off half Howard Davies, director general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), in a lecture last month to the Manchester Business School: THE LATEST SCIENTIFIC ASSAULT “... called on the government and employers to face up to the consequences of deep-seated economic changes that had CHIPS-ON-THE-BRAIN GALORE! transformed Britain into a more unequal n the last issue of Freedom we gave well as used in a gun to bum out the and poverty stricken society" (The Iour front page to The Laser Gun’ eyes of ‘enemy’ troops (or why not Guarduxn, 11th March). and called for scientists and demonstrators?), the Professor’s technologists engaged in such brainstorm could, in his words, “be a As well as distancing himself from the anti-social activity to be publicly possible partial treatment for “laissez faire approach followed in the exposed. Now as well as having Alzheimer’s disease, the degenerative 1980s” he pointed out that: Mothers’ and Fathers’ Days we have brain disorder in the old. Or it may be also had a Science Week. As if we a way in the future for man to extend “the widening gulf between rich and poor haven’t suffered enough from the his intelligence”. The latter gives even had not been matched by a universal scientists’ brainstorms! the Professor food for thought when increase in living standards. Over the past The latest is the medical implant of he acknowledged such work would ten years ‘the poorest 10% and some a computer chip in the brain. Colin raise important ethical problems others have become absolutely poorer’. “such as the prospect of people being The 1.3 million Increase in jobs during the Humphreys is his name and he is 1980s was entirely accounted for by Professor of Materials Science able to control the minds of others”. part-timers, mostly women. (whatever that may be) at Cambridge Presumably he means the wrong Mr Davies canvassed the Idea of a University. He is described in The people. After all, we already have negative income tax, which would top up Independent as a ‘leading scientist’ more than enough people and the pay of those on low wages and thereby and quoted as saying that it was institutions bombarding us daily with drag them out of the poverty trap." realistic to envisage a day when what we should do and think without surgeons would be able to attach tiny introducing chips-on-the-brain. his perhaps shocked audience memory circuits etched onto _ he put the rhetorical question: “Or microscopic silicon chips to the living efore the scientists are let loose is that too much like socialism?” And circuits of the brain. Addressing a Bwith their implants what about a then to reassure them he defended moratorium. All the experts, management on their pay increases medical conference at Hammersmith saying there was “little evidence that Hospital he maintained that: scientists, economists, politicians, church and other do-gooders and the overall there was one law for the rich “If we can understand the interface - the mass media just shut up for one year and one for the poor . Which in this boundary between silicon chips and brain and allow us to rehabilitate e writer’s opinion is a non sequttur. On cells - then there is a prospect of that subject, though, the law may human brain to help us to dea implanting silicon chips into the human apply equally to rich and poor, as brain." our daily lives and to enjoy about time we were left in peace y Freedom’s ‘legal adviser’ pointed out Like the laser research which can be p r o g r e s s (continued on page 2) used to cure people with, cataracts as ! EDITORIAL COMMENTS ** 2

figures, by 2003 “three out of every ten THE CAPITALIST DISEASE THAT WON’T GO AWAY men and 45% of all employees would be part-time”.

MASS UNEMPLOYMENT TO STAY e believe that today the basic Wnecessities of life can be produced for poor grateful for the extra crumbs from Attracted by the vast market and seemingly (continued from page 1) endless pool of cheap labour, foreign investors all the inhabitants of this planet, without when four editors were arrested during the rich man’s table. But surely somebody have poured In, bringing skills and know-how. damaging the environment and allowing World War Two: “You will get as much law has to provide the ‘negative income tax’? In the past ten years, ninety million Chinese more and more leisure for eveiybody. as you can afford". If anything, things Within the capitalist system it can only be have left to work in the new coastal factories. It Under capitalism, as always, the idle have got worse. What the CBI chief didn t the rich. They can’t squeeze the poor any is the biggest migration of all time - and it’s rich get richer, millions starve at the same mention was how the rich and influential more without them starving or blowing accelerating. time as millions of productive acres are can try to bypass the law. It’s not just in everything up! With all this flood of low-wage workers set aside - by order - and farmers’ bank those Mediterranean countries where to Will Hutton, Economic Editor of The released on to the labour markets, it’s little accounts reap this dishonest harvest. have the ‘right connections* is sometimes Guardian who is more than ever wonder that at the recent ‘Jobs Summit’ in Under capitalism production has no more valuable than having the right Detroit, the leaders of the developed world had uncomfortable with the capitalist system, few answers about how to maintain the Jobs relation to need: only to profit. Hence a lawyers. As we write, it would appear that writes: multi-billion pound advertising industiy the Tories’ chairman Norman Fowler put and far higher wages of their unskilled Mr Davies knows the answers. The rise in workers.” to create a demand for goods and services in a good word for a firm of architects who poverty to which the government has* been we can easily do without while the army were about to be made bankrupt by indifferent is absolutely offensive. The poor of homeless increases and we are short of Customs and Excise for non-payment of need to be empowered to get back to work - and nd one last statistic and forecast from hospital beds for the sick... and so on and i f £40,000 in VAT. As he pointed out, as an as he said the responsibility falls to the state. Aa report published by the Low Pay so on. MP he does this kind of thing for many of And, given the powerful forces promoting Network last week. All the rosy official The shorter working week we advocate his constituents, and this is very noble of income inequality, the correct response is now employment figures showing more people r has little in common with the part-time him. The actual facts are that the to raise ttetop rates of tax to fund the relief of in work give only half of the picture. racket which the government, and architect in question is not one of his poverty - the redistribution of Income against Employment figures show a fall of needless to say the employers, are constituents! He is however living with Mr which Mr Davies’ predecessors so frequently 113.000 in full-time jobs between March raged. The director-general of the CBI cannot enthusiastic about since it lets them out Fowler’s long-standing Commons and September last year, but a rise of of paying National Insurance, paid Secretary! Since publicity has been given be expected to call for this outright - but his questioning last night was the next best thing. 210.000 part-time jobs. holidays and other entitlements ‘enjoyed* to Mr Fowler’s appeal for his How the intellectual pendulum is swinging! by the full-time wage slaves. However, non-constituent, it now transpires that “In a case study of 91 supermarket vacancies in the Stirling constituency of the Employment this writer also believes in the leisure this was the second communication. The n our opinion, no Western government Minister, Michael Forsyth, It was found that all society because it not only gives one the first, according to The Guardian (22nd Ican control the economy, short of Jobs were part-time, with an average working time to brew one’s own beer, bake one’s March), was written: nationalising the whole financial system. week of 11.4 hours and average wage of £39. own bread, boycott the take-away "... In 1992 on official House of Commons The money markets, the banks, the Only four Jobs paid above £56, the threshold tasteless emporiums and, most important notepaper about mounting VAT debts facing pension funds are all a law unto below which neither worker nor employer pays of all, the time to look after one’s own London-based architects Ketley Goold themselves, as are also the multinationals National Insurance and the employee does not children. The latter we are sure will raise Associates. Sources close to the case claimed pay tax. Many workers on such low Incomes the temperature of some readers and we officials ‘softened their approach’ after and transnationals. The present would be eligible for means-tested benefits." receiving the letter. This was denied by government is obviously hand-in-glove promise to return to the subject while at Customs and Excise." with them, they are part of that mafia. But The report forecasts that on the present the same time welcoming contributions! we have no illusions that a Labour Customs and Excise can go on denying government would or could produce until they are Tory-blue in the face but fundamental changes to the grossly why have they still not taken action? unequal distribution of wealth. The Obviously mealy-mouthed Fowler did ramifications - worldwide - of capitalist Who are the real wealth the right thing. He used his ‘influence’ to interests are such that before any oblige his secretary, who had served him legislation could be put into effect the loyally, etc., for sixteen years. The only ‘enemy’ would have long before producers? reason for pin-pointing the Fowler affaire transferred all the assets elsewhere. (after all, there must be thousands of (Already it’s happening in South Africa, fter three days haggling by the farmers’ all their cropland out of production. They are similar cases of using one s influence, or and you can bet your last Hong Kong representative the Agricultural Wages now applying for another five years of being in business it’s blackmail pure and A dollar that there won’t be much left there Board decided that farmworkers should get a paid the equivalent of £365 a week to do simple) is because at the same time we when the 1997 transfer takes place. So 4.9% rise in their wages - that is another £6 a read in the newspapers in connection nothing! £N much for Chris Patten introducing week for full-time workers, bringing their with our over-populated prisons that ‘democracy* in the last years of 150 years Unlike the average farmworker for whom his >N almost 600 people were last year given of British colonial domination!) princely gross wage packet to £145. £145 is what he is expected to live on, the prison sentences for not having paid fines Talking of which, a relevant news item Interviewed by the BBC early morning Major has got other sources of income to for non-payment of television licences! which will surely influence the whole farming programme, the NFU (National supplement his wife’s fondness for her horses, Only a little bit of mental arithmetic told approach to unemployment in the Union of Farmworkers) spokesman said that mapc and a lot more acres where “organically rtnrf us that 600 people went to jail over some Western world, appeared in The Sunday it would cost the farmers £54 million a year reared” cows happily ruminate. £48.000 they owed between them while Express (20th March) and we quote: which they could not afford in spite of the fact llS^j The Major, it should be said, does one man, the boyfriend (as described by “China’s economic muscle is now developing that farming incomes, thanks to all the the media) of the secretary of the Tory occasionally ruminate on our wicked world: 18.00 ! each year by the equivalent of the entire Italian subsidies, went up 23% in 1992 and no less “one feels very slightly like a welfare Party's top man, owes £40,000 in VAT economy. than 60% in 1993! The farmworkers’ to.® which he has collected from his At this rate of progress, the ‘Sleeping Giant* scrounger ... I don’t think one can ever feel customers - apologies, his clients - and will overtake America early next centuiy to spokesman bemoaned the fact that too few happy doing nothing with the land. has used it for other purposes. On what become the world’s leading economic power. farmworkers belonged to the union and Something’s wrong when there are so many grounds does the Chairman of the Tory Astronomical sums will be spent on therefore they could not speak with one voice. people starving in the world and we’re being 16.® infrastructure to keep this extraordinary He also pointed out that farmworkers’ pay was 27.00 Party excuse this blatant capitalist fraud? paid not to grow food.” How can the Chairman of the CBI declare industrial revolution on track. £80 a week below that of workers in industry. Over the next decade, for example, China Which hasn’t prevented the Major from Jfei'"1 that there is not a law for the rich and one plans to install new capacity of at least 17,000 applying for another five years guilt-feeling for the poor?* megawattsannually. That’s fourteen times the eanwhile in secluded Oxfordshire, and he is hoping it will be more than £19,000 40.00 output of Britain’s new Slzewell B nuclear MLMajor Bill Lloyd and his wife Liselotte a year. Inflation and all that, you know, what! he negative income tax proposed by power stadon. were happily earning (so The Independent Major Lloyd is, by the Thatcher code, a «) Tthe CBI director genera] is obviously Add to that new roads, railways, caption described it) £19,000 a year for not a solution for unemployment It is telecommunications, water and sewage and the wealth producer. The humble farmworker, the J0 bill over the next ten years will be at least £200 growing nothing on their 215 acres of “high ne’er do well scroungers, some of them even simply an attempt to prevent the poor quality arable land”. Their good luck started 44,0 from resorting to desperate actions, but billion. China’s export success is evident moonlight and don’t tell the tax inspector! everywhere. A few years ago it was mostly six years ago when they were among the first When will we appreciate who are the real without making any changes in the shoes, clothing and toys. Today it’s telephones, balance of power, the rich remain rich, the 1,600 British farmers to take the EEC's wealth producers? computers and electronics as well. set-aside policy as far as it would go, moving

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— PERU — repression from wherever it may come. The current failed to mobilise thepc0picarounda I discontent and generalised misery gives us the pioj^t It does not attack the bourgeoisie d 2 unique opportunity to organise and consolidate an and its authoritarian activities lead it at the alternative base and a radical, revolutionary to kill popular leaders and to threaten any popX Fujimori’s Policies, the opposition to both capital and the state. In this organisation which does not obey its line, and context, we anarchists have assumed the difficult this way it imitates the left-wing opposition^ task of putting together a revolutionary project in groupings. All opposition which it does not control Anarchist Movement and the the middle of a difficult situation. We not only have is labelled ‘revisionist’ and consequently enemy.ft to confront fascist state repression which seeks to is in this way that we realise the difficult and block any opposition, but also deal with the dangerous situation in which Peruvian anarchists Shining Path authoritarian and sectarian dogmatism of the are trying to develop. That is why we are calling for Shining Path, whose activities do not reflect the eru is a country which is currently going and the Peruvian forest, constant repression and international solidarity for our struggle. We need through a socially and politically explosive aspirations of the general people. After twelve financial support and information material. P suppression of human rights puts the country in a years of political violence, the Shining Path has penod. After the coup led by Alberto Fujimori on pre-revolutionary situation. Akifalos no. 4 5th April 1992, in recent months the repression of In addition to this situation of extreme militancy, the Peruvian people has grown; and this after the the popular organisations are ready to fight back installation of a dictatorship which suppressed the against the bourgeois offensive. most minimal rights which guaranteed the The most powerful opposition is the Shining Path constitutional order, which failed to be re-enacted (self-proclaimed ‘Peruvian Communist Party') of Report from Chile during another attempted coup (a failure this time) a marxist leninist tendency, led by Abimael led by the military on 13th November '92. Guzman, today in police custody. he first thing you notice upon entering state-based section of the ‘middle class' Today, after the major electoral farce of 22nd The war initiated by the Peruvian Communist TSantiago, other than the ever-present remains destitute while a growing new October '93 which called itself ‘The Democratic Party twelve years ago is now reaching the towns. pollution, is the amount of building ‘middle class’ of white-collar workers and Constituent Congress', Fujimori's dictatorship can The anarchist movement is not big but it is active. construction going on. There are also far fewer semi-professionals get the high wages. Underi count upon a servile assembly, with an absolute Just in Lima there are three papers,Bandera Negra, destitute people on the street, even fewer than Allende there were 600,000 government majority to approve the laws which pave the way La Protesta and Collectivizacion. There are also six in ’91 and especially ’88. No mass media employees, at present the state employs to murderous and anti-popular economic measures collectives federated to the Coordination of propaganda, this place is booming. Adding to 175,000 people - a serious reduction of the | which favour foreign investment, that is to say the Anarchist Groups: this being a federal project state’s influence, but at what social cost? selling off of the country to the IMF and the World the growth are the thousands of exiles who which seeks to reach out to a national level, since The recent general election indicates some j Bank controlled by the US. have returned home with their savings who are there are other groupings in other Peruvian towns. of the changes this country has undergone. Against this offensive of capital and Yankee Peruvian anarchists’ work is aimed at creating now investing in new homes and businesses. imperialism, opposition and discontent is growing active cells in the different sectors of the Development isn’t restricted to just the capital Ideology and the hate it engenders was almost every day; assassinations, strikes and an internal population, which are already strong enough in either, there is a wave of construction totally lacking and the whole process had a £ war situation, which is a daily reality in the sienra organisational and ideological terms to confront the throughout the country, especially in the North American feel. All the major parties north, fuelled in part no doubt by laundered agreed on the same basic positions; the need „ cocaine money from Pern. People will even for a strong economy, the necessity of helping point out a building complex they claim was pensioners, aiding the poor and doing built from the Mao-fascist drug gang, the something to improve education. This litany f was even chanted by the pro-Pinochet party, Sendero Luminoso. Inside India which, in order to gather votes, has inculcated While poverty has declined from the 50% hat is the difference between freedom effectively been forced to liberalise their rate of the late Pinochet years to about a third an image of social consciousness, if you can wand oppression? In today’s economies in a similar way to India. of the population (still shocking), a great believe that! The Stalinists, to their dismay make-believe culture illusion comes wearing Newsweek heralded the development: “The income disparity remains. A nurse in a private alone, have continued their decline, getting the attire of reality and reality itself is often new Indochina - Vietnam, Laos and hospital or a teacher in a private school might less than 5% of the vote. One surprise was the the very opposite of what appears to be real. Cambodia join the modem world”. Consider earn five times the amount of his/her strength of the ecological party which got Nowhere is the reality of freedom as unreal the choice of the word ‘modem’. What colleagues in public institutions. Nurses are about 5% support, more or less similar to the as in capitalism. In capitalist democracy an Newsweek, one of the most unabashed media imported from Bolivia and Pern to work in situation in Europe. Let’s hope the Green individual is free to buy anything required as mouthpieces of the ‘United States first’ government hospitalssincequalifiedChileans Movement will have a good future in Chile. m long as he or she has the requisite purchasing philosophy, meant was that Vietnam, Laos prefer to work for private concerns. The old (continued on page 4) power. If you know this, you know how free and Cambodia were hitherto living in a the person on any Indian street really is. pre-modem, primitive world and now thanks What is true about individuals in a capitalist to Western imports and investments they democracy is no less true about nations in have gained entry into the club of modem — SPAIN — today’s capitalist global order. On paper, nations. India and the United States are equal In the entire article there is not a word of members of the United Nations. How real this regret or condemnation of the war against The authorities declare war on the equality is known to any discerning Indochina waged by the leader of the ‘modem newspaper reader. Falsehood parading as world’ - a war in which over half a million House of Peace - Zaragoza truth and the illusion’s illicit impersonation Indochinese lost their lives. There is only glee his squat, which has been occupied since 12th write to El Aerator, Apdo de Correos 3141,50080 L of reality are one of the definitional traits of that the sustained Western pressure on the TMarch 1987, has always been marked by its Zaragoza (Spain). the so-called modern era. This can be seen on three South East Asian countries to improve intense militant activity. Various collectives run the Source: El Aerator no. 35, January 1994 each of modernity’s many masks - freedom their human rights record has finally paid House of Peace organising conferences, of expression, personal autonomy and of dividends in the form of Indochina opening exhibitions, various workshops... But His Worship course human rights. its markets for Western goods, gadgets and Medrano decided to have them evicted on 27th May — ITALY — In the world today the worst violators of investments. The equation is simple: 1993. human rights are posing themselves as the southern nations whose economies are in On 23rd December at 9am, the forces of order trouble are forced to take their begging bowls began to empty the squat. At about 10am, about 100 Opposing defenders and enforcers of human rights squatters, who were on the premises, organised across the globe, making a mockery of the to the West whose response in turn is to turn passive resistance. The throwing of a bottle set the very term itself. The industrialised West in the human rights screw to engineer the most police off, charging violently and hospitalising six. squat legislation general and the United States in particular lucrative terms of trade for their inflated Armed policemen chased demonstrators. At 8pm urrently attempts are being made to legalise have gobbled up the world’s resources, economies. 400 people were in front of the House of Peace India has of course been opened up by the whilst the police were cordoning off the area. Some Cand recuperate squats (of which there are oveJ j devastated the world’s environment, caused 100). These moves are being led by the state and ^ the worst wars in the history -of the human West over the last three years. During that stones were thrown, and the police began charging again and firing rubber bullets. Some containers parties on the left (Greens, PDS and Rifondazio# ( race and are still sitting on huge piles of time the human rights issue was not on the Comunista). By legislation, the state and the# weapons of mass destruction. And yet these agenda. Now it is. Not a week goes by without were set alight and some police vehicles destroyed. One young demonstrator was held and beaten up parties are trying to recuperate and control * same nations are holding much of the one of the G7 countries blasting on the after these incidents. At about 10pm, a meeting of movement and areas of autonomy which art developing world to ransom by brandishing Kashmir issue. The cries of injustice have a the occupiers took place in the building, whilst currently beyond their control. To stifle all fbttfj ^ the gun of human rights. What they are saying hollow ring to them and often portray an young demonstrators continued to confront the of revolt, autonomy and self-management, sucbf Q in effect is: ‘open your markets or else we’ll enormous ignorance of the complexity of the police. Barricades and fires continued until their aim. tt use this weapon against you’. situation in Kashmir. The Indian government midnight ... The left currently devoid of content and trying * 0] regain its virginity finds itself the main support ej The United States has wielded this weapon lias a case to answer over Kashmir* but not to The following day five people lodged complaints of the state in this situation. Now, self-managem^ ^ to browbeat China, Russia, Myanmar, Iran, the G7 countries, We need to remember that against the police violence they had suffered from. is the possibility of establishing for yourself * Si* Iraq, North Korea and Malaysia. Currently it every time the United States in particular That same evening at about 8.30pm the rules of your own existence according to ^ ^ is following up success in these countries makes a loud noise about Kashmir and human mobilisation to save the now empty squat grew with principle of individual responsibility i with a concerted effort in India and Indonesia. rights violations, rest assured that there will about 500 turning out to protest. A little later, consensus decision-making. How blatantly and shamelessly the ruling be some company angling for a big during the demonstration which had been The practice of self-management in the squats 0 ' elite of the United States has been using commercial deal. In this context it is no organised, there were confrontations with fascists other structures is based on a desire to extend j * human rights as a crowbar to prise open coincidence that Enron, a United States ... One isolated youth was badly beaten up by greatest amount of self-management vis-a-vis ^ W skinheads; the police didn't intervene. Various domestic markets of countries near and far power generation giant, recendy bagged a state and other authoritarian structures. forms the sordid stuff of much of incidents took place during the night (Molotov self-management cannot but be alien to any fj tl 9,000 rupees crore project at Dabhol in cocktails, smashed shop windows). contemporary global diplomacy. It is also the Maharashtra. The hidden message is: ‘give us state interference (grants, administrative stuff of the United States’ media the deals and we'll stay quiet on Kashmir’. It On Monday 26th December the collectives of the .,.). We affirm the wider expression of fre^0^ ^ House of Peace gave a press conference rejecting expression, creativity, decision-making manipulation. is a policy that seems to work very involvement in the incidents the previous evening experimentation in each living spacec consti1 o n s t i IW A few weeks agoNewsweek carried a cover effectively, for the United States especially. story on the market reforms in Indochina. and holding the Civif G9vemor responsible. They a squat. We are opposed to all moves Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos have called for another demonstration on 7th January. legislation. yia flf John Shotton The struggle continues. For more information: El Paso, To give support to the evicted collectives you can Buole, 10127 Torino, Italy FEATURES FREEDOM • 2nd April 1994

urrently there is a great furore over the Cdiscovery of many bodies in the home of Labour, too late, discovers a serial killer. The police are sparing no time How to get away with or expense while they look for evidence of the crime, and the media gives grisly reports of The Fuel VAT their activities. Murderers are always pursued, murder condemned and punished. One would assume that governments, and the public, believe that sad. Nor do we use one word if we are writing reality, they are acts of war, and if they are Racket killing is wrong. But they do not for ourselves and another word if we are murders then so were the deaths caused by the Governments do not believe that it is wrong writing for a group. When it comes to killing British airmen in World War Two. n the 8th February issue of Freedom we to kill. On the contrary, not only do they human beings, however, governments have Governments never like to admit that they Idrew attention to the leaflet accompanying X believe that it is right to do so but they also many words to describe the behaviour. In that are in the business of killing people. Their our bill from London Electricity telling r know that they could not exist were not people way they can control the judgement that the advertisements for recruits always say that in consumers that they could get round paying •m1 *-s. prepared to do so. And while most of the public makes about the killing. the army there are opportunities to have VAT in April if they loade advance payments. public may be appalled when they hear of If I put a knife in a man’s heart during a war, sports, learn a trade and see the world. They And we pointed out that it was not the poor, murders, they are generally ready to kill my government says that I have killed him and never say join the army and have the chance who were having difficulty paying their foreigners, and even their own countrymen, that my action was lawful. But if I put a knife to kill people. current bills let alone having spare cash to pay when they are ordered to do so by their in a man’s heart so that I can steal his money, Murderers and serial killers are being stupid in advance. ss’ government. my government says that I have murdered him when they act without governmental approval. Only now, within days of the VAT on fuel ew Governments are able to rule us and enforce and that my action was unlawful. It makes no If they think they would like to kill people and coming into operation, has the Labour Party md their appalling double standards on us by difference to the man concerned. Either way, would get pleasure from doing so, they should discovered the racket! Gordon Brown, their der controlling the way we think, and one way he is dead. The action that produced his death • never do it in their own time. They should do Shadow Chancellor, claimed (21st March) tent they do this is by manipulating the meaning of is the same in either case, so it ought to be it while they work for a government. Then that there was a stampede to settle bills up to oys Ilkr. ^ words. Governments not only change the described by one word only. they will not only be paid to commit murder, two years in advance. According to The the ‘ R accepted meaning of words, they also use If an action is approved by a government, they will also have the approbation of other Guardian report (22nd March) the “windfall different words to describe the same thing. they say it is lawful; if it is not, they say it is people while they do it They need not work to the gas and electricity companies” could be This imprecision is tolerated only in matters unlawful, so the dictionary definition of for their own government: any government as much as £1,000 million. As many as that concern the state. For example, when we murder is ‘unlawful killing’. Lawful killing is will do. If their own government is not at war, “300,000 consumers had taken advantage ... communicate with one another by putting okay; unlawful killing is not Further, what is then they can easily find some government with one unnamed Norwich customer paying words on paper there is only one verb to lawful for one government is often unlawful that is, and so they can be mercenaries. It is £7,500 in advance to avoid VAT’. describe what we are doing. We say that we for another. That is why the IRA killings are, always possible to kill legally. It is easy to get 300,000 are a fraction of the total consumers write. We do not use one word to describe our according to the British government, away with murder. and confirms Freedom's conclusion that once action if we are happy while we make it and unlawful. That is why the British government Derrick more a tax loophole was being provided by another word to describe our action if we are describes IRA bombings as murders. In the government for those who could: "... make a profit just by transferring a few thousand pounds from their deposit accounts where at the moment they may be getting 3% net, and pass it on — OBITUARY — to private enterprise electricity and get out of Report paying 8% this year and 17 %next year on their electricity bills.” Three intellectuals But if the Labour lot mean business why wait from until it’s too late to make a stink on yet another he past few months have witnessed the Resurgence and the Fourth World movement Tory racket! deaths of three intellectuals from rather than the anarchist movement He Chile Continental Europe who had idiosyncratic retired to a Gloucestershire village, where his (continued from page 3) relations with anarchism. last years were marred by persecution from The far left simply cannot admit that life has * * * local vandals - supporting his thesis that our escape the Horthy dictatorship and settled in improved for many people during the past five Leopold Kohr died in February 1994. He ‘mass society’ destroys the ‘translucent Britain. During the Second World War he years and since the economy is growing at an was bom in Austria in 1909, and studied in communities’ which regulate social worked for military intelligence, and in 1944 unprecedented rate (10%) Chile may well be Innsbruck and Vienna. He witnessed the behaviour. He was a very convivial man, with he was given the job of de-Nazifying young propelled into developing status in a decade or Spanish Civil War as a journalist, learning a wide circle of friends and a growing circle German prisoners of war. His method of so. They cannot admit these things because about anarchism at first hand, and then worked of admirers. patient argument succeeded in converting the nationalism, statism and protectionism are the in Paris. When Austria was annexed by Nazi * * * several of them not only from Nazism but also to his own idiosyncratic form of philosophical essential ingredients of their ideology. There Germany he fled into exile across the Atlantic, Paul Feyerabend also died in February 1994. is also the arrogance of the left, development working in the United States, then Canada, libertarianism. He earned his living as a minor He was bora in Vienna in 1924, and during the civil servant, and when he retired he founded can supposedly only occur when they are in and then the United States again. He worked Second World War served in the German charge. Yet Chile had taken a path totally from 1946 to 1954 at Rutgers University, the Cambridge School of English. During the army on the Eastern Front, being permanently 1940s he gathered some of his colleagues and contrary to their dogmas. For this reason where he specialised in the problems of crippled by wounds received during the retreat anarchists and libertarian socialists should be political size, advocating much smaller units disciples in the Bridge Circle, a private from Russia. He completed his education in discussion group with an internal magazine, very careful about swallowing ML and ‘Third than nations, let alone empires. His book, The Austria and was first a distinguished Worldist’ propaganda. We must learn to Breakdown of Nations, was published in which for a time during the 1950s and 1960s evaluate these questions on our own and Britain through the initiative of Herbert Read theoretical physicist and then an eccentric played a small but significant part in the develop independent analyses rather than in 1957, at a time when large size was in philosopher of science. He worked in radicalisation of a new generation. Reynolds putting an anarchist gloss on leftist fashion, and he never received the credit he England for a time and then at the University would make contact with young people, draw hand-me-downs as is so often the case. deserved. One of his chapters was ‘The of California, Berkeley, from 1958 to 1990. them into correspondence or conversation, My quarrel with Chile’s Friedmanite Beauty of the Small’, but it was the book by He was influenced by Karl Popper and then by and gently try to clear their minds of cant As Imre Lakatos, and moved away from scientific Revolution is the same quarrel I have with all his pupil Fritz Schumacher, Small is Beautiful a result the Bridge Circle involved more and philosophical orthodoxy towards violent revolutions - an elitist group of (1973), which caught the change in fashion participants, the London Letter was circulated unorthodoxy and indeed perversity. At the to more readers, and Reynolds himself know-it-all ideologues treats humanity as and became a popular slogan. same time he drifted politically to the left, and occasionally spoke at public meetings (using i tbere & # means rather than an end. The revolutionaries Kohr worked from 1955 to 1973 at Puerto turned away from the academic community to the name Alfred Rajk). Some of his associates of ‘right’ and ‘left’ are social engineers who Rico University, where he contributed to local m m m the young people of the New Left, in Europe later became well known (Colin Wilson often think they know what is good for everyone and papers a series of essays later collected as The as much as America. In 1975 his book Against are willing to impose these fantasies upon us, Inner City (1989). He then worked from 1968 wrote about him), and a few became Method made him famous and infamous, and IfUland * no matter the cost in human suffering. Present to 1972 at Aberystwyth University College, anarchists. He himself never changed, he became one of the intellectual leaders of the day Chile is the result of at least 3,000 deaths, where he advocated independence for Wales. reading very widely, thinking very deeply, if lllflf growing unorthodoxy of the past twenty years. thousands tortured and imprisoned, hundreds (He also advocated the independence of the and writing a series of essays and books. The He called himself an anarchist, but was closer of thousands thrown into poverty, one million islands of the West Indies, but Anguilla’s most accessible of the latter was Pilate fs HSII to Dadaism and nihilism than to traditional exiles and sixteen years of a mentally secession from St Kitts in 1969 led to a British Question, published in 1964 and in a revised suffocating dictatorship. Castro can do the anarchism, and he approached irrationalism and enlarged form in 1983. His models were invasion by Harold Wilson’s government!) and obscurantism. His later books included same thing of course, and is treated as a hero He wrote several more books - The such paradoxical thinkers as Heraclitus and Science in a Free Society (1978) and Farewell by the left, but such is the hypocrisy ideology Overdeveloped Nations, Development Lao-tse, Jesus and Nietzsche, and he himself to Reason1987). { He taught that there are no engenders. without Aid, The Academic Inn - and exerted a quiet influence on several people rules and that nothing can be known, but Chile once had a vibrant libertarian eventually saw his ideas coming into fashion. who were repelled by all the orthodoxies of resented it when his own ideas were treated J movement of mutualists and syndicalists. A He called himself an anarchist, but was really our age. accordingly. He was as eccentric in his the positive s*gn> other than the Green Movement, a latter-day distributist, being more interested At die very end of his life he unexpectedly behaviour as in his work, but was widely liked is the existence of neighbourhood movements in the scale and spirit of institutions than their became famous in his native country, , tO' as a person even by those who disliked his 1 in the poblaciones which reject Leninism and shape or structure, and he was aligned with following the rediscovery of theFirst and Last ^ promote a form of decentralism and local doctrines. Book of Poetry, which he had published in \p w cooperation. Now that the authoritarian left is * * * 1932. He was hailed as the greatest living ■ m steep, and hopefully irreversible, decline Send for a free list of our publications Alfred Reynolds died in December 1993. Hungarian poet, and invited back in the last ^ of jrfit i perhaps a rebirth of anarchism may occur as a Freedom Press His real name was Alfred Reinhold, and he weeks of his life to attend readings of his writings and make a television programme tiie social inequalities of the 84b Whitechapel High Street was bom in Hungary in 1907. As a young man T about his life. ^ untrammelled free market, London El 7QX he was involved in the literary and artistic life i l ^ f Larry Gambone of Budapest, but in 1936 he emigrated to NW m 2nd April 1994 • FREEDOM BOOK REVIEWS

The Diversity of Life sci^ o u sly he misquotes out of context Edward O. Wilson Dawkins s The Selfish © b i S ? ! I Penguin, £7.99* Genetics and human nature itself to those who hope and strive for a tendency, and the procedure is still of doubtful approaches Darwinian evolution } radically different society. But the judgement angle. Conventionally, w e S J T The Doctrine of DNA validity. But far from justifying the as primary and DNA, w h i c S ^ ° rgan^ that Wilson is an ideologist of the status quo permanence of society as we know it, Wilson R.C. Lewontin the construction of organisms, may well be unfair. Wilson’s reputation as a here argues for a society closer to nature, with Penguin, £5.99* Dawkins reverses the conventi^°^aJ7' “right-wing zoologist” depends on people an ethic of conservation. principle that “a chicken is the egg’way s of ackles will rise at the very mention of taking Lewontin’s judgement to be true, ‘Green’ sentiments are fashionable, but this making another egg”. Chapter 2 of his book book is different from the common run of HEdward O. Wilson. He is reputed to have instead of reading Wilson’s work and judging arguesorniiPC that that thp.the nrpr*lircnreprecursors of t:r.life______. must have originated what Lewontin, inThe Doctrine of for themselves. ‘ecology’ tracts. For one thing, it does not just been bare molecules of some sort, with the DNA and earlier writings, calls “a human Wilson’s latest book The Diversity o f Life ignore counter-arguments, but seeks to answer property of acting as templates for molecules nature ideology called sociobiology ... the would be a good place for anarchists to start them. There is the counter-argument, for like themselves, and that Darwinian survivors ruling justifying theory for the permanence of reading. If it supports any ideology, it is that instance, that the destruction of species is not among these ‘replicators’ were those which society as we know it”. of the radical green movement. Its message a disaster in the long run, since the surviving also attracted other kinds of molecules to form W ilson’s Sociobiology (1975) is a (and it really is its message, not just an aside species will adapt to fill the empty ecological protective bodies. The chapter ends with a comprehensive survey of social behaviour in in the last chapter) is that human activity is niches. There is paleontological evidence of purple passage: leading to catastrophe through the destruction huge extinctions from which life recovered animals, beginning with ants (on which he is “What was to be the fate of the ancient replicators? the world’s foremost authority) and ending of species. completely. Wilson answers: ... Do not look for them floating in the sea... Now with humans. In the last chapter, Wilson As in Sociobiology, the last chapter includes “A complete recovery from each of the five major they swarm in huge colonies, safe inside gigantic discusses which features of human behaviour remarks on ‘human nature’, for instance: extinctions required tens of millions of years ... lumbering robots ... They created us, body and are likely to be genetically inherited, selecting “People acquire phobias ... to the objects and These figures should give pause to anyone who mind ...” believes that what homo sapiens destroys, nature those features most frequently observed. Thus circumstances that threaten humanity in natural A journal article by Lewontin rendered this as he concludes that human aggression is environments: heights, closed spaces, open spaces, will redeem. Maybe so, but not so within any length of time that has meaning for contemporary “[they] control us, body and mind”, which is probably genetic, because warfare has existed running water, wolves, spiders, snakes. They rarely not what Dawkins said at all. Dawkins form phobias to the recently invented contrivances humanity.” throughout history, and that slavery is not protested, but the misquotation was copied genetic because it has been successfully that are far more dangerous, such as guns, knives, The delight of this book, as with Wilson’s automobiles and electric sockets.” into Not in Our Genes (1986) by Lewontin, abolished. earlier works, is the wealth of natural history, Rose and Kamin. The argument is of doubtful validity, and of Note the word ‘rarely’. Wilson is still using “ecology expressed in the details of the Dawkins kept protesting, and in the second course the conclusion does not commend relative frequency to indicate hereditary biology of individual species that still live or edition of The Selfish Gene (1989) he carefully have recently perished”. Anyone who enjoys explains his position, which does not in fact reading David Attenborough’sLife Trilogy, or differ greatly from that of Lewontin himself. pool, no more parliamentary lobby briefings, the works of Stephen Jay Gould, will enjoy Nevertheless, in The Doctrine of DNA, Test Card F no more leaks. Working for reform within the The Diversity o f Life, Lewontin again repeats his misrepresentation system can never work because the media and Richard Lewontin, a distinguished (although this time he corrects the word Test Card F - television, mythinformation capitalism are “locked together like rutting geneticist, is largely responsible not only for ‘controlled’ back to ‘created’): “We are, in and social control dogs”. Ed Wilson’s undeserved right-wing Richard Dawkins’s metaphor, lumbering AK Press, 80 pages, ISBN 1 873176 91 0, Public access broadcasting is also rejected. reputation, but also for that of another popular robots created by our DNA, body and mind . £3.95 (post free inland from Freedom Press) Previous experiments using cable in Swindon science writer, Richard Dawkins. Wilson he Neither Wilson nor Dawkins embraces the and Milton Keynes during the late ’60s failed quotes out of context. Dawkins, more doctrine which Lewontin attributes to them. Il rom the Institute of Social Disengineermg because open access tended to merely is fine to argue that social improvement is noi who also brought us TV Times - a reproduce and maintain the status quo. F impossible, and setting up straw men to knod seven-day guide to killing your TV, this new The idea of vox pop and public access was JVeui title* naia auailaM z them down is a useful mode of argument Bu book is a Situaiionist-influenced all-out attack seen as a sop to people. Any idea that they had O O O it looks like slander, to give straw men th< on the ieliy. Good on graphics and cartoons, influence over it was an illusion, nothing more names of actual persons. j* but also packed with excellent analysis, this than a tokenistic reciprocity. Test Card F is a AGAINST POWER AND DEATH Donald Roomn book has seen the vacuum behind the glass book that has seen that public opinion is a The Anarchist Articles and screen. myth. “What use is public opinion if * If ordering by mail from Freedom Press The central idea is that television is about everybody remains in their armchairs?” The Pamphlets of Alex Comfort Bookshop, add 10% inland or 20% outside the UK social control. Viewers are merely a tabula book is not only hostile to the media itself, it edited and with an introduction by David Goodway cash with order. Pounds sterling only please. rasa onto which politicians and admen write also flays political movements who wish to Articles published between 1943 and 1986 in the their messages.The function of the viewer is use the media for their own ends. Change will journals War Commentary, Freedom, Now, Peace News to consume the image, consume the products not come about through people watching a and elsewhere, together with the pamphlet he Raven 24 is by far the best special issue on offer, and remain inactive. Television is a different spectacle, but only happens when we Peace and Disobedience (1946). T produced by the editor John Pilgrim. Mud substitute for community, the artificial better than his Raven 19 on sociology, whkfc take control over our lives. Collaboration in 168 pages ISBN 0 900384 719 £5.00 controversies it generates a substitute for the manufacture of the Spectacle is as futile seemed to try to present sociology as some sortof consensus. Images are instantaneously and counter-revolutionary as selling Malcolm © © O progressive force for good, and even somewba better than his earlier Raven on anthropology. The obsolescent In this virtual reality, the past X t-shirts. “Instead of the movement turning HERBERT READ does not exist at all. We are overloaded with over the situation, the media turns over the reason may have something to do with the fact tha this glut of images so much that our movement”. A One-Man Manifesto while Mr Pilgrim was a professional sociologist, ii understanding fails us. Compassion fatigue and other writings for Freedom Press the realm of science he is a dabbler, an amateur wh( Is there any hope? “The whole job’s fucked” is whiling away his retirement studying the histor sets in. We are passive spectators. Test Card F tells us. It looks forward to the edited and with an introduction by David Goodway of science as a kind of hobby. When one is no Could television be reformed? Television is time when we take back our lives from the affiliated to a profession, and doesn't depend upoi in the hands of the multinationals. The complete texts of all the articles, broadcasts, image makers. It invites us to discover for reviews, poems and speeches of Herbert Read published it for a living, it is easier to be detached and mo! Programmes and news bulletins are what ourselves that “the media is not your friend”. in the anarchist journal Spain & the World and its fearless in one's criticisms. come between the ad-breaks. Alternative Standing for nothing, the media can successors Revolt/, War Commentary and Freedom, Consequendy Mr Pilgrim is able to say: *Ui viewpoints are excluded just as the IRA are accommodate itself with whatever orthodoxy from 1938 to 1953, together with the pamphlets heroic age of scientific optimism ... came to afosj denied the "oxygen of publicity*’. Corporate prevails. The politicians need to image The Education of Free Men (1944) and about thirty years ago. It appeared to be the endc image builders1 wishes are paramount while makers. Television executives, after the fall of Art and the Evolution of Man(1951). the idea that science could ultimately solve all d the media hierarchyensures the message is put Ceaucescu apologised for their past mistakes, problems. With it came a gradual retreat fro* 208 pages ISBN 0 900384 72 7 £6.00 rationalism just as dangerous as the elevation of jjji across in the right way. Self-censorship works promising in future to bring the truth. I can’t scientist to a sort of God-Priest with a knowleci because the managers share the same help but feel that Test Card F is correct when assumptions of the corporate world and of mysteries beyond normal mortals." it says the most potent revolutionary image Yet I am troubled that he is rather more trusting non-compliance will result in the sources of will be the blank screen. BS° 84b Whitechapel High Street, LondonEl 7QX the scientific profession than is now fashion^ information being cm off. No more media Steve aud simply blames the governments Sj manipulating science and the scientists, arguing "j Why does he keep buyingfrom the time of Galileo they [governments] iil r e g a l l y MY 'i'wtmws drinks for every onebeen eager for V§?1V the pay-off, 7 in terms of military*} official To m x t v iO A t He 1 s now 8Q and theindustrial State technology, that science can pro'll so don't give 25 him ? inorease onSurely his the scientists themselves have or they WHO G ot HS. responsibility in this? Mr Pilgrim’s retereo#. , J l b CUAtUMC* ^ ip .0AP 0 'M Galileo is apt, in that Galileo Galileirepresented great historic compromise between the s c ie n tist RHD'f9 f\UL >lA the powers that be. Bertold Brecht has described the scicfl . -Those Who 7 dilemma thus: "The fact is that Galileo LOOKID i i f i l astronomy and physics by simultaneously w/Hi IH — (Vfe these sciences of a greater part of their | importance" J B w ko fUHfctfQCMe V y . 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to an article by T.H. Huxley on Darwinism The Raven, no. 24, on Science - 1 which applied his Struggle for Existence Freedom Press, % pages, £3.00 (post free Science and Society metaphor to human society. In a detailed anywhere) investigation of the background to this as relevant today as it was then. tyranny from United Nations control of controversy Todes establishes that the concept n issue of The Raven devoted entirely to Nigel Calder, in a long, thought provoking political and military power that could initiate of mutual aid in nature was widely accepted Ascience is quite an event, but one essay that would stand on its own as a a thousand years of darkness. However he by the nineteenth century scientists in Tsarist approach with caution. Will it Jj&s' pamphlet, argues that science and the claims that information technology and Russia, including Kropotkin even before he science-bashing or, worse, articles eulogising nation-state cannot safely co-exist and that biotechnology will soon make the world became an anarchist. Whilst accepting the benefits of some of the pseudo s c ie n ^ eventually one or the other must disappear. In visualised by Kropotkin in Fields\ Factories Manv anarchists are suspicious of botn Darwin’s theory of evolution they considered the course of his argument that it will be the and Workshops possible. His image of the that he had been too greatly influenced by science and scientists and with some future has the nation-states replaced by justification when one reads media headlines nation-state that will be the loser, he points out Malthus and by the capitalist society in -which regional and global confederations of such as ‘scientists discover gene for that science is essentially anti-authoritarian he lived, giving insufficient attention to the autonomous communes and welcomes an homosexuality' and 'left-handers die young’. and non-hierarchical: the job of the new role of mutual aid in the struggle of species to And of course it is true that the kind of society research student is to prove his professor survive, which was in any case largely a we live in profoundly affects the kind of wrong. Certainly science depends on the free struggle against an adverse physical science we get and too many scientists are exchange of information. A discovery is not environment. Other writers in this collection working for the military or using their skills to accepted until the evidence has been critically also expose the fallacies of Malthusianism, increase the profits of the multinational examined by others, despite the newspaper which incidentally is one of the main props of capitalist giants. headlines, and later independently confirmed. Social Darwinism and justification for A 11 the writers in this issue would claim that It may still be revised or even discarded as a competitive capitalism. natural science as a system of enquiry based result of further work. This means that In the first three shorter pieces the Nobel on experiment and observation, although not although it may take twenty years for a radical Prize winner C6sar Milstein, interviewed by necessarily the only one, has much to offer of idea to gain peer group acceptance it weeds Colin Ward, describes the problems he benefit to society and the planet. Some offer out sloppy or silly work, but it does encountered trying to be both a scientist and the hope that recent scientific developments notoriously delay the acceptance of new an anarchist in an Argentina controlled by the will actually make a free society more concepts that threaten the peers’ own military junta. The other two consider the achievable and none supports the view current authority. misuse of scientific metaphors and constitute among many anarchists that a return to a Despite Calder’s impeccable green a natural introduction to the next issue of The simple, low technology, unsophisticated, even credentials he has this to say about the Raven on religion. Brian Martin warns against primitive existence is an essential prerequisite eco-environmentalists: using the discoveries in quantum physics to a free society. Such a back-to-the-land ‘1 have watched the tender shoots of scientific about the way sub-atomic particles behave to movement was favoured by the intellectual ecology and Earth-system science being trampled justify strands of Eastern mysticism and goes romantics of the nineteenth century although by green wellies. And just like their imperial appearance now of local initiatives which on to point out the importance of one suspects that they took their comforts with grandparents who bullied the world in the names of could begin to create a new society in the understanding how current social values them, leaving the factory workers to the horror religion and commerce, the environmentalists of midst of the old. influence the way scientists model nature, and degradation of the industrial revolution, Europe and North America are having a lovely time Alan Cottey, a member of ‘Scientists for using Darwin and Kropotkin as examples. telling everyone else how to live. From the comfort which generated the profits that provided Global Responsibility’, is more pessimistic John Noble complains succinctly and lucidly of their own deforested continents, where they them with their income. In this issue many spew carbon dioxide galore into the air and bleach than Calder, recognising that science and about writers who use God as a metaphor, important topics are discussed, and some their remaining trees with automobile exhaust, they technology ruthlessly controlled by the particularly when writing about physics and oontnovmial statements are made, but if they reproach the Brazilians for living in Amazonia and powerful has made the world poorer. He is cosmology, when all they want to do is provoke discussion in the pages of Freedom the Chinese for burning coal. When the Indians say, concerned that scientists do not take enough indicate that there are matters of which they then this is to be welcomed. very well, we shall use nuclear energy which responsibility for the applications others make are presently ignorant or do not understand. The f e t essay, by Harry Baecker, opens the releases no carbon dioxide, the eco-colonialists of their work, even, if I understand him The editor of this issue is to be congratulated argument by suggesting that we are throw up their hands in Politically Correct disgust.” correctly, to the point of not pursuing certain on the way he has assembled a disparate onor When Calder criticises organic farming or lines of enquiry if the ultimate use of them collection ofessays into a coherent account of M iction thai is by our technology, and that it suggests that health service cuts might might be bad. the way science influences society and society m our abilities in this respect that make an improve the nation’s health one has doubts, Kropotkin crops up again in Daniel Todes’ influences science. Raven 24 deserves to giardust society feasible. Although originally but there may be a case to answer. Although scholarly piece on the background to the achieve a wide circulation. published thirty years ago mAnarchy 25, it is optimistic overall he recognises a potential for writing ofMutual Aid, which was in response Harold Sculthorpe

Metaphor and Russian Evolutionary Thought*, and Scientific fatalism Mr Pilgrim claims it changed the mind of Stephen Discussing the use of the ‘God Metaphor’ in recent Science, humanity and the Jay Gould, “one of the rilbst astute commentators books on science, John Noble claims it is confusing of the scientific world”, who wrote an essay and perhaps in danger of letting religion in by the ‘Kropotkin was no Crackpot’. back-door. Possibly its most notorious recent use inventive dwarfs The Russian Kropotkin, who later became an was in Stephen Hawking’s book A b rief History o f anarchist, advocated the case for mutual aid in Tune. In its celebrated ending he wrote: “Then we miUioc to science swings chemist, etc. - to claim establishment prestige and opposition to the English T.H. Huxley’s version of shall know the mind of God”. tecmai prejudice, and I privileges. And, as Orwell says: ‘In England, a evolution in the Struggle for Existence. Far from Mr Noble thinks we can avoid this confusion if nscif a liitfe over -excited large proportion of our leading scientists accept the being an oddball, it now seems that Kropotkin’s scientific writers would substitute words like e post modernist distrust structure of capitalist society, as can be seen from position reflected that of the Russian Darwinists in ‘Nature’ or ‘The Universe’ or Bohr’s ‘Provident ft which he claims has the comparative freedom with which they are given general. This went unnoticed at the time, because Authority’ for the word ‘God’. Alas, in Mr sow kx*n ever larger”. knighthoods, baronetcies and even peerages." Kropotkin was the only Russian Darwinist writing Hawking’s case, the problem may be more than one ooc may be being more Alan Coney is aware of other possible concerns in English, and few Western naturalists could read of semantics. In an article endded 'Master of a lay i p i en doubt, and of scientists, such as “the struggle for status, Russian. Dr Todes says: “The fate of his [Darwin’s] Narrow Universe’, Bryan Appleyard accuses him of a kind of scientific ‘fundamentalism’, in that he seeing through the influence and resources*'. He quotes from a paper theory in Russia illustrates the effect that culturally rejected biology because it was “not sufficiently upki&UMiod KUSOUuC by Sir Ernst Chain where he says that science that specific metaphors can have on the reception and has "no moral or ethical quality”, is an artificially elaboration of scientific ideas”. fundamental”. And he took up physics “because it and unrcalistically separated part of human The English view - ‘the struggle for existence* - was the most fundamental science”. Mr Appleyard claims “this is a statement of faith and of scientific / iMklUh Cjf If Mr Hr f activity Steve Woolgar, in his book Science, the led to H.G. Wells and Social Darwinism; believing power-play more than it is a meaningful statement Ifl nil kuven essay ‘Science, Scienusu and very idea, asserts * science is infused with that science could solve all the ills of humanity on the one hand, and Margaret Thatcher type of about physics" Respotmhihty* Alan Couey show*uugggw abuni politics, not just in the limited sense of funding In Hawking's case it seems he views himself, or the moral 001100 that allows some considerations or government or commercial political ideas about survival of the fittest. perhaps physicists generally, as some kind of ■deouau & ixm c 10 'the optunisut belief that internals, but m respect of an entire gamut of *<3od'. A$ where he says: “In that ease, we would Koowwdfc twtm mly lod to 'pfuinfti < Mi mj atffcte* t i argument* mobilisation of resources, rhotunc and so txi" And he adds: "Negotiation* as indeed be Masters of the Universe”. Mr Appleyard t uiiry in 4 Acnbn of SdcsfiUiti fur Olohai 10, say, tthat counts as proof in adflttoe are no mure has it that “Hawking's idea of science is that of a K&pc*i*tfriiity He say*. "Jj u ** faring 10 find thar nur ies* disordtsiy than any argument between Books reviewed inFreedom rarefied discipline far above the heads of ordinary ^ « rhcro jfecieeiiatit} cap do little mutt lawyeis, pnAnician* Of social hticjjUsu can be ordered from people, and infinitely superior to all competing for Ik bon concerning humanity's As C&m Milsteui says, elsewhere in The tow * forms of knowledge”. *****al «ad the planet» tookgy** lhe claim that kciente it free of political reality is In any case, John Noble is very likely right in ■ play Lifa t f CMtfta, the eharacta itself a statcanem of political belief Freedom Press saying: ‘'Seeking a purpose to the Universe or a a*9an» 'Had I stood fwin the tcwoiuftt meaning to fife is probably futile”. He is also clearly ***« devakjpod something hk* the ducnur '• Bookshop on good grounds in arguing that, in Popperian fuppemne Oath, a v w to u*e thou knowledge Voaw cultural routo terms, such work is not scientific in that it is not exclusively foe mankind * benefit A* thing* aie, In a short paper* Brian Martin placet several 84b WhitechapelHigh Street subject to *falsifiability’ and thus not testable. the boa that can be hoped for is a face vi iawMiw *tcuiifu profuutiont in a MKtai totting U is a London E1 7QX The longest and perhaps most thought-provoking *ho can be hired for any purpuee" wanting to fashionable idd&is in the realm of idea* article in this issue of 7V Raven is Nigel Calder’s Mi Cottey (be traditionalist* who claim the He refer* to the pa»*k

"The one condition essential to the establishment of such bucolic anarchists is the — ANARCHIST NOTEBOOK — organisations) who availability of cheap power. And the source of entire length of the public om ^ the power must, of course, be beyond the proposed building of a fu n W .'?' lnt0 &e control of the tyrant, the power-maniac, Tilting at Windmills - 1 station, Sizewell B in Suffolk power whether he be a monopoly capitalist or a civil from January 1983 to March^'0*1 ,asted servant. How did we manage at St Matts? We objections were overridden and L P 85- erected windmills and made them drive lighthouse) was experimenting with the possibility of local opposition in the 1980s. a new proposal for Sizewell C there is generators. They were not the graceful relationship between the speed of the tips of This may not be seen as important by has any idea of how to cope withthe windmills of the traditional Dutch landscape, the sails or blades and that of the wind. There anarchists, but it is a factor in the systematic problem of the storage of nuclear waxt^UStm but machines as efficient as the airscrew o f a was a steady stream of invention and destruction of alternative political policies in But in the meantime the ThSh, Spitfire, and designed on the same principles. innovation. towns and cities today. Mathematically perfect and delivering a But the revolutionary invention of the steam Paradoxically, it was not until the Thatcher well-nigh inexhaustible supply o f power... ” engine, and the growing dependence on government sold off the electricity generating - Edward Hyams, William Medium (1947) imported grain after the repeal of the Com industry in 1988 that wind generation had a economic viability of nuclear power station. Laws in 1846 (which resulted in the ports chance to display its potentialities. The No prudent investor would want to buy shares ini nuclearnuclear power. power. So So the the legislation legislation included included lex Comfort, whose anarchist writings themselves becoming milling centres) slowly Central Electricity Generating Board had a a requi“requirement ~~"# that every household * • in gu A make a welcome reappearance in his new killed the windmill and interest in it, other than monopoly of supply and was obliged to buy as a historical relic lovingly preserved and coal from the National Coal Board, owners of country should pay an additional levy to pay Freedom Press book Against Power and for nuclear investment. operated to astound us tourists. On the other the nationalised mining industry, oil and gas Death, once asked in a postscript to a letter Dr David Elliot of the Open University’s “Why is it that anarchists seem to live in or hand (as I explained in 1957) the (war-related) from the producers, sometimes nationalised growth of the aircraft industry in the twentieth and sometimes based overseas, and nuclear Energy and Environment Unit, explained to near windmills?” He was generalising from Stephen Titherington of Radio 4’s ‘File on century, and the greatly increased power which had become available as a the coincidence that his home was The Four’ (12th March 1994) how this chance understanding of aerodynamics and by-product of the arms industry and the Cold Windmill House in a village in Kent, while subsidy for non-fossil fuel energy encouraged metallurgy that resulted from it, together with mine was the Old Mill House in a hamlet in War. There was little room for any the commercial development of wind pov/er. Suffolk. the developments in the generation and use of consideration of wind power. One answer might be that there was a time electricity as well as the growing awareness All the same, after the Second World War ‘The government’s privatisation programme was when every village had one or more windmills that fuel resources were not inexhaustible, the Electrical Research Association in Britain faced with the problem of dealing with nuclear power, and the resolution of the problem was to out of necessity. His experience and mine is gave a new impetus to efforts to harness the began investigations into wind-power wind. give it a subsidy, firstly in order to encourage of meeting casual callers anxious to know generation. The enthusiasts reported that a private investment, which failed, and secondly to details of the millers who once lived in the As a conscript in and after the Second World chain of aero-generators along and north and keep it going in the public sector, which is the house. I have to tell them that not a trace War I spent several years in Orkney, the group western seaboards (Cornwall, North Wales, present situation. To do this they invented this thing remains of our mill, which was pulled down of islands beyond the north of Scotland. the Hebrides and Orkney) would provide called the ‘fossil fuel levy’ which is a surcharge on or blew down in 1907, but that I have taken Outside the two towns, nobody except the between one and two million kilowatts. The all our electricity bills which runs at about 10% of the trouble to learn the names and activities of army had an electricity supply, but almost the Association selected two experimental sites. electricity costs. As an incidental part of that they a century of millers, one of whom had the first thing to catch the visitor’s eye was the One was at Costa Head in Orkney, where a added on renewable sources as beneficiaries of the delightfully Orwellian name of Benjamin ubiquity of little propellers raised above the lOOkw generator made at John Brown’s scheme as well. This was something of a fig-leaf ai nuclear power continued to get 95% of this lev) Clover. chimneys of houses and crofts, charging shipyard on the Clyde, was erected in 1951. The other generator was erected in 1953 on the (initially it was 98%). That led to projects whicl: A more fanciful answer might be that there accumulators to provide lighting and radio have been fully conventional, based on combustior is something attractive to bucolic anarchists reception. They were mostly ‘Freelites’, Caenarvonshire coast in Wales where another of industrial or domestic wastes as this was no\» about the concept of local and renewable marketed commercially by Lucas before the lOOkw generator, made by a now defunct commercially viable. Wind power has been th< motive power, perfectly illustrated by the war, or home-made versions of the same thing. company Enfield Cables, was put up. I only other real beneficiary. We now have about 10 quotation from a forgotten novel by Edward It’s a melancholy fact that the first British actually saw this tower when it was put up for megawatts of wind power up already.” Hyams at the head of this column. I used it to civilian casualty of the Second World War testing at St Albans in 1951. At last, many decades after the experiments c introduce a discussion of ‘Harnessing the was a young blacksmith, James Isbister of Needless to say, these experiments were of enthusiasts, wind power has had an accidents EL££dgrnJqr_l3\h July 1957, at a Brig o’ Waith in Orkney, killed by a chance no interest to the Central Electricity opportunity. In a further article 1 want k time when only a handful of anarchists, bomb meant for the battleships in ScapaFlow, Generating Board. It put its faith in the including me, and a handful of engineers, potential for nuclear power, and there were discuss the lessons we have learned. whose hobby was making wind-generators. Colin Wan including T.C. Haldane, were concerned with 1 once dismantled one of these simple only two people (both funded by voluntary the potential of wind generation of electricity. devices made by him and blown off a building Today it has become a topic of highly-charged by high winds. In its way it was a masterpiece discussion in upland areas of England, of simple ingenuity, and it was this that setoff warning of instant fines on some poc Scotland, Wales and Ireland, ^nd its a lifelong interest in wind generation. For as travellers who cannot afford the fare. ambiguities are worth exploring from an soon as you have seen a few of these little Through the Which reminds me of something a bit mor anarchist standpoint So I have to begin with generators which provide a 12-volt electricity constructive. A visit to the Falls Road, Belfas the historical explanations I was obliged to supply, or the paddle-wheel type of {Theatre Ireland, no. 28, Duchas na Saoirst provide 27 years ago. five-horsepower windpump that you used to Anarchist Press issue): Wind-using appliances reached their peak, see for pumping water on farms, you begin to t occurred to me, the day being the Ides of “Black taxis picked up passengers. This is a mechanically, in the nineteenth century in think about the potential for building them on IMarch, to glance at William Shakespeare’s a grand scale, or connecting them in series, or admirable idea bom in Belfast, an imprompt such beautiful and functionally perfect objects play of Julius Caesar. I could not get past the community taxi service which went up and dow as the clipper ships at sea, and on land the of developing some more efficient means of first lines and the significance they hold, the length of the Falls Road from the city centre t windmill. Before their long and gradual storing the electricity they produce than which I previously missed. Andersonstown and back. The fare in 1989 was 35 decline began, there were about ten thousand accumulators. and the first person in decided the direction. Otht And many backyard inventors have had a go “Act one Scene one: the scene is Rome. A street. windmills (grist mills for flour-milling) in Enter the tribunes Flavius and Marullus, andpassengers waited at the kerb, hailing down ti) England, and another two thousand marsh at it, using old hardwood aircraft propellers certain commoners. taxis. Thus the people have overcome a tardy bi service. Whether it was against the law or not, tk mills, for pumping water by wind power, which you could buy dirt cheap at jumble sales Flavius: Hence! Home you idle creatures, get you as curiosities. But serious experiments in people stamped their approval on the scheme ao draining the East Anglian fens. There was the home: it worked.” same intense exploitation of water power. generating power from the wind moved on to Is this a holiday? What! Know you not, When I lived in the London borough of large-scale production. By 1957 I had Being mechanical you ought not walk gathered a variety of reports from France, Upon a labouring day without the sign S till on transport, it is my impression $ Wandsworth, for example, I learned by chance sunny day that by and large the populate that the river Wandle, in its eight miles or so Yalta (USSR), Vermont (USA) and many Of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou? First commoner: Why, sir, a carpenter. has not appreciated the seriousness of * before it joins the Thames, once had 42 mills other parts of the world. In Britain the generating industry had been nationalised by Marullus: Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? situation. To take one example: British Rail*5 and was called ‘the most hard-working river ... Wherefore art thou not in thy shop today?” for its size in the world’. Apart from grinding the post-war Labour government. This move truncated yet again, prior to selling off. grain and pumping water, it was used for was widely welcomed as it was thought more Clearly here is a description of communal life Nuclear waste is transported to Sellaf^ grinding everything from stone to snuff, efficient. All those little local coal-burning as Shakespeare imagined it to have taken place and back to the ports (Dover) by rail at ft rolling copper, lead and iron, and running power stations would feed more efficiently in Rome, but instantly recognisable in his own moment. In London it is carried on the No^ power looms and printing presses. In 1993 the into a National Grid. time. The state was all powerful and the London Line. If the new owners pass tb$ performance artists Platform re-exploited it There were many unforeseen results that we Romans pushed their noses into every aspect orders on to road transport, the trucks will$ for the first time in a century, setting up a small never thought about at the time. Most of the of life. How dare a mere carpenter show his any routes available, neglecting commit water turbine providing electric light for a pre-nationalisation generators were operated face in public, the day not a holiday? safety conditions. local school. by city and town councils. The same local Unfortunately this brutal scene, meant to be Nuclear waste trains and tfucksJ| The millwrights, with the materials of their authorities also operated tramways, powered funny and vulgar, does not continue in the motorways, red routes and country lanes day - timber, wrought iron and later cast iron by cost-price electricity - cheap and simple same vein, even if seriously, to describe the prove the most catastrophic enterprise^ - were in the forefront of technological public transport. The end of local control of arrangements and working conditions in executive have so far sanctioned. advance. Many of the self-taught technicians electricity spelled the end of trams in the late Shakespeare’s England, or in Rome or whose inventions made the industrial *40s and early ’50s. They have had to be wherever. correspondent writes from Spjl revolution possible were millwrights or expensively re-introduced in Manchester in Restrictions on citizens remain, without a ... regarding the obituary of millwrights’ sons - Smeaton, Cubitt, Mciklc the ’90s and in other cities in the next few qualitative cnange. ____ ? in F reedom (vol. 55 > no. -v* and Murdoch. They introduced ball-bearings years. Control of electricity supply, like that was some follow-up in the Spanish in the eighteenth century and airbrakes in the of gas and often water before nationalisation, f all local authorities is the firm pieces, some much warmer, and an * nineteenth. The fan-tail device for swinging meant that councils had another source of Omasquerading as London Transport the commemoration in the national library. ^ the mill into the wind (ancestor of the tail rotor income, beyond the control of government. most vindictive? Posters are pasted up low key perhaps, but the government is in helicopters) was invented in 1750; and by The importance of this was never noticed until everywhere, with typography at its most of trouble.” , Job*1 1790 Smeaton (the builder of the Eddystone central government set about destroying the obnoxious by a very reliable hand, with Q if. Anarchism, if. Q and everything else in society, must A K / of r of

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